Maybe the best approach would be to make templating systems less restrictive. whether using a single perl script, splitting script and perl (HTML::Template) or embedding perl (HTML::Mason) there are clear disadvantages. An alternative is to join all three methods together. Have a file that is a perl script but contains the ability to include templating and embedding. For example: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my $script;
my $template_variable = "templating";
while(<DATA>){
my $line = $_;
$line=~s/\n//g;
if ($line=~m/^(\s*)%(.*)/ig){
$script = $script."$2\n";
}else{
$script = $script."print \"$line\n\";\n";
}
}
#print $script;
eval $script;

__DATA__
<html>
normal HTML
%print "embedding perl \n";
$template_variable

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As little or as much templating or embedding could be done depending on the requirements of the project, without changing framework and using perl as much as possible.

In reply to Re: developing a template system by westernflame
in thread developing a template system by tinita

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